WEBVTT ENDED ON A DEAD-ENDSTREET IN NASHUA.>> W GIVING THEM THOSE VERBALCOMMANDS TO GO TO THE GROUND.AND THEN THAT'S WHEN I SAW THEFISTS COME IN.REPORTER MARK SUTTON MAYRRECALLS THE MOMENT WHEN POLICEOFFICERS TRIED TO TAKE RICHARDSIMONI INTO CUSTODY.SIMONI HAD BEEN IN AN HOUR-LONGHIGH-SPEED CHASE FROM WESTERNMASSACHUSETTS TO NASHUA.A PORTION OF WHICH WAS CAPTUREDBY NEWS HELICOPTERS AND DASHCAM.>> I CAN TELL YOU IN THAT MOMENTIT DOES NOT APPEAR THE WAY ITDOES ON THE VIDEO.EVERYTHING IN THE MOMENT FELTLIKE IT WAS TAKING A VERY LONGTIME.REPORTER: MASSACHUSETTS STATETROOPER JOSEPH FLYNN I FACINGASSAULT CHARGES ACCUSED OF USINGEXCESSIVE FORCE WHEN TAKINGSIMONI INTO CUSTODY.THE JURY SAW VIDEO OF THE ARRESTTHAT SHOWS NEW HAMPSHIRE STATETROOPER ANDREW MONACO. THROWINGTHE FIRST PUNCH AS POLICECONVERGED ON SIMONI.MONACO IS NO LONGER WORKING INLAW ENFORCEMENT.FLYNN' LAWYERS SAID HE DID WHATWAS NECESSARY TO TAKE CONTROL OFA DANGEROUS AND VOLATILESITUATION.THE NASHUA POLICE OFFICER WHOPLACED SIMONIHANDCUFFSREMEMBER SOME TENSE MOMENTS.>> I FELT LIKE THIS LOOK WASODD.IT WAS I MY OPINION RATHERBRAZEN.THAT HE HADWAS LOOKING AT USIN THAT FASHION BASED ON THOSECIRCUMSTANCES.

Officers who took part in the arrest of a man following a chase that ended in Nashua testified Wednesday in the trial of a Massachusetts state trooper accused of using excessive force on the suspect.

Trooper Joseph Flynn is charged with two counts of simple assault after he was accused of repeatedly punching Richard Simone after a two-state police chase that ended last year on a dead-end street in Nashua.

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"I was giving (Simone) verbal commands to go to the ground, and then that's when I saw the fists come in," New Hampshire Trooper Mark Suttmeier said.

Simone was arrested after an hour-long, high-speed chase from western Massachusetts to Nashua, a portion of which was captured by news helicopters and cruiser dash cams.

"I can just tell you that in that moment it does not appear the way it does on the video," Suttmeier said. "Everything in that moment felt like it was taking a very, very long time."

The jury saw video of the arrest that shows New Hampshire Trooper Andrew Monaco throw the first punch as police converge on Simone. Monaco pleaded guilty to assault and is no longer working in law enforcement.

Flynn's lawyers said he did what was necessary to take control of a dangerous and volatile situation. Sgt. Clark Gaphardt, the Nashua police officer who placed Simone into handcuffs, remembered some tense moments when Simone got out of his pickup truck.

"I felt like his look was odd," Gaphardt said. "It was, in my opinion, rather brazen that he was looking at us in that fashion, based on the circumstances, and he almost looked like this wasn't over."

The jury is expected to hear testimony from Monaco, Simone and Flynn when the defense begins its portion of the case.